Research Catalog

Title

The Fifth Festival of Pacific Arts, Townsville, Australia [videorecording]

Publication

1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mitoma, Judith
• Suber, Amy
• Festival of Pacific Arts
• University of California, Los Angeles

Description

1 videocassette. 68 min. : sd. color NTSC.; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Subject

• Dance festivals > Australia
• Dance > Melanesia
• Dance, Aboriginal Australian
• Dance > Torres Strait
• Dance > Australia
• Dance > New Guinea
• Dance > New Britain
• Dance > Trobriand Islands
• Dance > Vanuatu
• Dance > Solomon Islands
• Dance > New Caledonia
• Dance > Micronesia
• Dance > Micronesia (Federated States)
• Dance > Nauru
• Dance > Marshall Islands
• Dance > Northern Mariana Islands
• Dance > Polynesia
• Dance > Tokelau
• Dance > Wallis and Futuna Islands
• Dance > Tonga
• Dance > Samoan Islands
• Folk dancing > Samoan Islands
• Dance > Fiji
• Dance > Easter Island
• Dance > New Zealand
• Māori (New Zealand people)
• Dance > Hawaii
• Hula (Dance)
• Dance > French Polynesia > Tahiti
• Folk dancing > French Polynesia > Tahiti
• Dance > Cook Islands
• Dance > Tuvalu
• Dance > Guam
• Theatrical makeup
• Dance > Micronesia (Federated States) > Chuuk
• Dance > Micronesia (Federated States) > Yap
• Folk dancing, Māori
• Television. Fifth Festival of Pacific Arts, Townsville, Australia
• Weapon dances
• Mask dances
• Drum dances
• Child dancers

Note

• Title from tape frame. Title on container: Excerpts from the Fifth Festival of Pacific Arts, Townsville, Australia. Produced by the World Arts and Cultures Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (chair: Judy Mitoma). Editor: Amy Suber. Videolog compiled by Lara Davis, Laurel Kishi, and Amy Suber.

Contents

CONTENTS (by geographical origins of participants): Melanesia: Australian aborigines from the Torres Strait, Mornington Island, Warnum, Willowra, and Wakka wakka; Papua New Guinea (Mt. Hagen, Gogadala, Dua Dua, West New Britain, Trobriand Islands and Pari); Vanuatu (Futuna Ambrym); Solomon Islands; New Caledonia. -- Micronesia: Federated States of Micronesia; Nauru; Marshall Islands; Northern Marianas. -- Polynesia: Tokelau; Wallis and Futuna Islands; Tonga; Western Samoa; Fiji; Easter Island; Maori dancers from New Zealand; Hawaii; Tahiti; Cook Islands. -- Final day of festival: American Samoa, Papua New Guinea (Dua Dua), Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Guam; line dance by all delegates.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1315

OCLC

NYPY926007370-F

Title

The Fifth Festival of Pacific Arts, Townsville, Australia [videorecording]

Imprint

1988.

Summary

Excerpts of dance and music performances presented by participants in the Fifth Festival of Pacific Arts, held in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, on August 14-27, 1988. Photographed by a 24-member field expedition team consisting of members of the World Arts and Cultures Program at UCLA and of the Los Angeles artistic community. The excerpts represent the regions of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, and include many different types of dances, among them weapon dances, mask dances, drum dances, and children's dances. There are also glimpses of craftwork, face- and body-painting, and the donning of headdresses and ornaments worn in the dance.

Local Subject

Television. Fifth Festival of Pacific Arts, Townsville, Australia.

Weapon dances.

Mask dances.

Drum dances.

Child dancers.

Added Author

Mitoma, Judith. Producer

Suber, Amy. Editor

Festival of Pacific Arts.

University of California, Los Angeles.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1315